The issue with Tasers..

[GMDino]

(07-10-2019, 10:26 AM)Au165 Wrote:

#Seahawks 2017 2nd round pick, DT Malik McDowell, who's gotten released since, was captured on video getting into a crazy fight with a policeman via @TMZ

McDowell was eventually charged with 2 counts of felony assaulting and resisting.https://t.co/QFHA2x27uj pic.twitter.com/Nqcxy8ww7C

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) July 9, 2019

...is that sometimes they don't work. Here you see what will eventually be former NFL player Malik McDowell refusing officer instructions. The officer gives him every chance in the world to comply then he attempts to tase him only for it to not work. At that point McDowell rushes the officer tackling him to the ground where they wrestle around. Luckily, the officer eventually gets control of the situation and isn't injured, but that very easily could have ended up deadly for the officer. 

I am always a proponent of using less than lethal force when possible, but I just wanted to highlight that it's easy to say why don't they taser someone after the fact. The reality is they don't always work and this was just an example of a situation that could have ended very poorly for the officer. One of the subsidiaries of the company I work for is in the law enforcement market and guys being tasered and it not phasing them is becoming a more common occurrence, especially with drug use. There is a company making a product called BolaWrap that is interesting, but they haven't scaled yet and it has issues of their own.

Agreed that they don't always work.  However the use of deadly force as a first option, while working, tends to restrict one's right to a trial for example.

Not every stop is like this one.  

Police have a dangerous job.  No doubt.  One I would not do.  But they must also walk that line of not overreacting too.  It's a tough call but I still lean toward better training at keeping situations calm before physical altercations can arise in most cases.

We have a real problem with people not trusting police and police being defensive with people because they fear they are not trusted.

Something has to be done to fix THAT or we will see more incidents like the one in the video.